Amber vs. Saffron — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Amber and Saffron
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Amber
Amber is fossilized tree resin that has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects.
Saffron
Saffron (pronounced or ) is a spice derived from the flower of Crocus sativus, commonly known as the "saffron crocus". The vivid crimson stigma and styles, called threads, are collected and dried for use mainly as a seasoning and colouring agent in food.
Amber
Hard translucent fossilized resin originating from extinct coniferous trees of the Tertiary period, typically yellowish in colour. It has been used in jewellery since antiquity.
Saffron
A corm-producing plant (Crocus sativus) native to the eastern Mediterranean region, having purple or white flowers with orange stigmas.
Amber
A hard, translucent, usually brownish-yellow fossil resin, used for making jewelry and other ornamental objects.
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Saffron
The dried aromatic stigmas of this plant, used to color foods and as a cooking spice and dyestuff.
Amber
A brownish yellow.
Saffron
A moderate or strong orange yellow to moderate orange.
Amber
Having the color of amber; brownish-yellow.
Saffron
The plant Crocus sativus, a crocus.
Amber
Made of or resembling amber
An amber necklace.
Saffron
A spice (seasoning) and colouring agent made from the stigma and part of the style of the plant, sometimes or formerly also used as a dye and insect repellent.
Amber
(obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
Saffron
An orange-yellow colour, the colour of a lion's pelt.
Amber
A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
Saffron
Having an orange-yellow colour.
Amber
A yellow-orange colour.
Saffron
To add saffron to (a food), for taste, colour etc.
Saffroned water, saffroned rice.
Amber
(British) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection when safe to do so.
Saffron
To give a saffron colour to (something).
Amber
The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
An amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor
Saffron
To dye (a fabric, garment, etc.) with a saffron-based dye.
Amber
(uncountable) Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.
Saffron
To colour (a metal or wooden surface) with a gilding product containing saffron.
Amber
Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
Saffron
(figuratively) To embellish.
Amber
To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
Ambered wine, an ambered room
Saffron
A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.
Amber
To preserve in amber.
An ambered fly
Saffron
The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.
Amber
To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
Saffron
An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.
Amber
To take on the yellow colour of amber.
Saffron
Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.
Amber
A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.
Saffron
To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.
And in Latyn I speak a wordes few,To saffron with my predication.
Amber
Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.
Saffron
Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food
Amber
Ambergris.
You that smell of amber at my charge.
Saffron
Dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus
Amber
The balsam, liquidambar.
Saffron
A shade of yellow tinged with orange
Amber
Consisting of amber; made of amber.
Amber
Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.
Amber
To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.
Amber
To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.
Amber
A deep yellow color;
An amber light illuminated the room
He admired the gold of her hair
Amber
A hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry
Amber
A medium to dark brownish yellow color
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